Doctreat <= 1.6.7 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Overview

Advisory ID

CVE-2025-58970

Product

Doctreat - Hospitals and Doctors Directory WordPress Listing Theme doctreat

Affected

≤1.6.7

Fixed in

1.6.8

Weakness

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

Required access

No account needed

Published

Aug 2, 2025 · updated Nov 13, 2026

Credit

Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh

Source

Wordfence Intelligence

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Summary

The The Doctreat - Hospitals and Doctors Directory WordPress Listing Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.7. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Remediation & mitigations

1. Update to version 1.6.8, or a newer patched version
2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh.

The The Doctreat - Hospitals and Doctors Directory WordPress Listing Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.7. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

• Advisorywordfence.com

Related CVEs

Timeline

1. Aug 2, 2025

   CVE published

   Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

2. Nov 13, 2026

   Record last updated